SET APART
A podcast that combines Eastern and Western teaching/story from the scriptures to regain our WHY in God. The purpose of this show is to break down the severe disconnect in today's Church vs how God has called for this life to be lived.. We do this through the scriptures and our guest's stories with each episode.
The American Church teaches an extremely one sided evident driven view of the scriptures. In that danger you lose the poetry and art of story telling to where there is only half truths left. No wonder people are walking away from Christianity by the masses.
These eastern authors intended much more for our hearts with their writings that God inspired. Watch as these ancient truths give you a new/refreshing perspective that will change the way you live. Getting back to the Garden.
SET APART
Ep.3: How To Human
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Most people were never taught how to be human—
they were taught how to perform.
How to keep it together.
How to stay useful.
How to smile while the inside caves in.
How To Human is a reset.
Not self-help. Not hype.
A return to what’s real: presence, honesty, limits, confession, forgiveness—things we avoid because they aren’t impressive.
In this episode, we talk about the quiet ways we disappear from ourselves—numbing, coping, hustling, hiding—and how God keeps calling us back.
Tell the truth.
Be where you are.
Stop pretending.
Bring your real life into the light.
Because healing doesn’t start when you “get better.”
It starts when you come back.
And we're back. Tyler and Will, Will and Tyler said about our podcast. Episode two. Fun fact of the day, buddy. Did you know that you can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from two miles away? Hey. Two miles. That's pretty wild. That is crazy. That's gotta be underwater, right? I don't know. Because like blue whales don't come out of water unless it's like a really bad situation. They jump up, maybe. Blue whales? I don't know. That's orcas.
SPEAKER_02No, I've seen other whales jump up and dude.
SPEAKER_00Have you seen the size of a blue whale? There's zero way it can swim up and do a freaking backflip or something.
SPEAKER_02No, it it jumps out of water and splashes back down. I'm pretty sure that's still an orca. No, orcas, yes. Orcas correctly, yeah, they do that. And blue whales. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00They're also the largest whales. I mean, I don't want to give away another fun fact, but they're also the largest mammal, which is why I'm having a hard time believing that.
SPEAKER_02No, yeah. Okay, then they absolutely do jump out of water. They breach the water. It's wild. It's good to see you. It's good to be here. It's good to see you, dude. Glad we're doing this.
SPEAKER_00Is it is today Friday?
SPEAKER_02Today is Friday the 13th.
SPEAKER_00Oh, really? Dom dum dum.
SPEAKER_02Let's bring all the kookiness into it.
SPEAKER_00Let's for today?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Just see what happens.
SPEAKER_02Let's bring all the charismania craziness into this. I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_00We don't have to do much for that, dude. It's already everywhere.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Emotionalism, charismaniism.
SPEAKER_00Moralism.
SPEAKER_02Moralism.
SPEAKER_00Moralism means I can do it myself.
SPEAKER_02All the isms. Um, but there's a lot of isms going around. It is uh March 13th, 2026.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I am very grateful that we do this together. I am very thankful uh that you stirred my affection for this. Truly.
SPEAKER_00Oh, thanks, dude.
SPEAKER_02Um I I I do recognize that this is, you know, podcasting is a type of way that a lot of people are listening to stuff. And I'm I am intrigued to see how stuff will evolve, you know, down the road. And sure, not not particularly with you and I in the uh of how we'll change, but what people will shift to, right? What people will, what's gonna be the next podcast type of thing, you know, when it was YouTubing and you know, so I I am very thankful. I do watch a lot of YouTube. Yeah, a lot of my uh I coach high school basketball, and a lot of my players, I'll I'll find them just being I'm like, hey, what are you doing? They're like, oh, just watching YouTube. And I grew up when YouTube was the um like just short videos, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00So yeah, just cat it was just cat videos and yeah, just some random like tutorials on how to do things, yeah, yeah. And now there's like full full on channels. Well, yeah, because you can watch because the thing about YouTube is that you can watch whatever you want at any time, and it's there YouTube. You it's all about you. Is there something in that for today's episode?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, probably. But it is really good to be back.
SPEAKER_00Um that was my that was my innuendo point, yes, that it did mean something.
SPEAKER_02People are gonna be so tired of us on the front end of this. I know. So yeah, really good for us to be back. Uh episode it would be labeled as episode two. Uh, this is our third episode that we're recording. Yes. Um, and we are in Genesis chapter two today. Yes. Which is uh a fantastic deal. Last episode we talked about Genesis one, uh adventuring into how does this all start? Uh the West, as as in America, uh really uses Genesis one as purely a uh creation story, and maybe the most that they will get affectionate with it is arguing about old earth, new earth, which is just not the point. And that's what we talked about. What was the point of Genesis 1? Right. Why is that there? Why the beginning? And it not just being like, oh, well, of course it's the beginning, it's the creation story, and that's why we have this big old museum in Cincinnati, Ohio. Nope, none of it's the point. And one of the top reasons why Jewish people do not sit down with Christians and to listen about Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior and Messiah is because of the exegeting of Genesis chapter one, the interpretation of Genesis chapter one. And you know, Moses wrote Genesis, Exodus, Viticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the first five books of the Bible. And so he's the author of Genesis, and and uh uh God approaching him, right, to to write this out, and he was the one that led the people out of Egypt, out of slavery for 435 years. And the biggest point that God made to Moses being like, hey, I before anything else, I need my people to know where I, as their God, and them as my people, commit myself to them every single day. And we said that that was the evening and morning part that he put at the end of every day. Because that's such a strange thing. And today we're gonna get in a little more about the whole thinking Bible thing. But we're just not taught to see evening and morning and be like, oh, well, why is it look like that? We're just taught, oh, it's the Bible. You don't question it, just keep reading. And that's why Christianity looks the way that it does. Because we just read all 66 books and like, whoa, look at me, and we'll memorize massive parts of Isaiah.
SPEAKER_00Oh, look, I read it in 90 days or a year, or it's like, okay.
SPEAKER_02And you look no different. You do not look set apart, you actually look a lot more like society, and what a sad, numb place that that is. Yeah, and I did that for years, of course. And and it's and it's outside of you know how we're taught on things, we're just not taught to think Bible.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I remember one summer I um for some reason I outlined the entire Bible um in a notebook, like but chapter by chapter, verse by verse, just like trying to just trying to memorize, trying to understand more. And while it helped my memory, like while it helped me be able to recall things, it didn't really do much else for me. But you but everybody else was like, that's so awesome, dude. That's so crazy. You tell anybody, um But it did, but it didn't make me different.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. You tell anybody that you did that with your Bible, that you outlined the entire Bible from from Genesis Revelation, you say that to any of our men's groups, right? Our house church, any of that kind of stuff. What will you get? You will get this praise, unquestioned praise. Yeah. Unquestioned praise. And what's the unquestioning? The unquestioning is, are you different? Are you different?
SPEAKER_00And to be fair to myself, I wasn't, I was different, but I wasn't different in the right way. Because all I all I did from that point on was either, you know, be uh show off that I could be like, oh, this is there and that's there, um, for pointing out verses, people to do that to me this day. Um, or it made me be like, I have to change right now, but not in a but not in a heart way. It only made me be like, oh, if I don't do this, bad things will happen to me.
SPEAKER_02Right. And so Genesis one is about unconditional acceptance. Yeah. That God starts with our at night, evening, when the sun goes down, that's when he starts with us with our entire day. That's when he starts with us as a human being, as his creation. And a lot of us are like, well, I'm not doing anything. That's the entire point. It's not to enable laziness, it's not to enable, oh, we're just gonna sleep all day. No, you're gonna toil with the field. But it's that your value as a human has already been set. And it's not determined by a president, it's not determined by a boss, a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a husband, a wife, a school, anything else that every we all try to label and use to identify us. And and and that's why that's why the Genesis is formatted the way that it is literally. That's why it's uh uh talked about and believed about as it being a chiastic poem, a slave song of freedom, of what type of freedom? Identity, identification, that you know who you are, and you don't need the enneagram, you don't need the Myers-Briggs test, you don't need the disc profile, you don't need anything but except for God being like, this is who I say you are, and this is where I start with you. What an unbelievable thing. And so that's the point of Genesis one. And today we get into the point of Genesis two. Why is there a tree in the garden? Why, why, why are the why is there great detail in these rivers? Uh uh from from the beginning river to to the end, there's none. What what's going on with with the animals? Yeah, what's going on with Eve? Why didn't she she show up sooner? Yeah, why why after the animals? Yeah, why do we wait for all this stuff? Why work at all? It's a very interesting thing.
SPEAKER_00Why name the animals at all?
SPEAKER_02Exactly. And and so this is uh because this is all before the fracture, and so I think we all can agree we're living in the fracture right now because we're not in heaven, even though the tomb is empty, the fracture is it is sealed up the the already but not yet, but we are still dealing with the ramifications of what happened in the garden. But we can all agree that there was a way that this was done in Genesis 1 and 2. That every day God showed up to take a walk in the cool of the day. There's a reason why it's the cool of the day. And and there we were, ready to take a walk with him, ready to work the garden with him. What an unbelievable honor that is. That is still available today. But if you don't know how to be a human, if you don't know how to be a human and think Bible, you will always be confused. And you the addiction of starting in Genesis 3 with behaving your way back to God will forever be the greatest drug of your life.
SPEAKER_00That's exactly how I was. I going back to it, my everybody would have thought it was a good thing that I did that. Everybody and on the out on the outside, everyone was like, dude, you're crushing it. And but I would laid my head down at night and be like, I I still don't know, I still don't know what I'm doing. Right. I still don't get this in the best way until I came across this. And now I still don't know what I'm doing sometimes. No, I know what I'm doing a lot more now. No, but now what to do with I'm able to just we don't know what we're doing. Exactly.
SPEAKER_02And and that shows the horrific relationship the the American Christian society has with the unknown. We we have such a a addictive need in order, I need to see it in order to believe it. Well, that's not faith, man. That's not faith at all, right? That isn't that that is a um, yeah. Watch me need it to be a type of agenda-filled way in order for me to start physically walking after it. Right. The hope of things I'm seeing, right? Uh and and that just doesn't, that's not possible. Yeah, that's not faith. And so no wonder everything uh looks the way that it is, and that's the problem when you uh need everything through absolute truth. Remember, no writer, including Luke, no writer in the Bible learned one plus one is two through absolute truth. They learned one plus one is two through discovery, through wrestling, through adventuring to two. That's how that's how they learn too. But look what look at our society right now. We just try to memorize everything. We don't learn why anything is the way that it is. We don't, that's why none of us really even know why we believe what we believe. If a gun was put to the majority of our heads, Christian-wise, why do you believe that? And if they ask two more whys, okay, well, why do you believe that? Into why do you believe that? No one would know what to say. And that is an utter problem in the kingdom of God. Because God needs God needs humans. He doesn't need a bunch of beasts in order to do this, he needs humans who know what they're doing, who know how to be, and and we're gonna explain the whole human and beast thing here shortly, right? But but with that, a beast doesn't know. A crafty beast doesn't know. It knows how to do things, but it doesn't know when on anything, it doesn't know how to give stuff meaning the way that a human does. Just instinct, just all well, I feel this, yeah. So I get to do it. And that is today. That is today. We're the Jew 2.0, the Christians are the Jew 2.0. Yeah, having the Messiah here, and and there that's the that there's another real danger on thinking we know how the second coming of Christ is gonna show up with this big old sword, gonna cut people's heads off, the enemy's head, all these things, right? Do do away, do away, do away. Man, isn't that what the Jewish people were saying on how the Messiah is gonna come? And he and and they reject him because he came like what? A baby? A baby. And and geographically, they reject him because he came from a slum, slummy old town. What good comes from Nazareth? Uh-oh, that sounds so much of today. And again, this is these are the issues that we're gonna run into as a group of people who are trying to live for God, but we need it a certain way. We need to see the unknown a certain way. We we need we actually don't, we can't have it as an unknown, but we're gonna act like we have faith. And so no wonder the shallowness of our relationships and when suffering or the storms come into our lives, they absolutely obliterate our faith. Because it was never saving faith in the first place. We never had saving faith in the first place.
SPEAKER_01I think it's about time that we get saving faith.
SPEAKER_02I think God is like, hey, you guys you you do you guys want this yet? Or do you want me to stay away longer while you're having your love affair with the world? Out of Hebrews it talks about those who eager for Christ to come back will be the ones chosen, the ones who are eagered. How many, you know how many people are not eagered, they're actually secretly afraid of him to come back because of their love affair with the world. Well, I just want to see my family grow up. I just want to see all this stuff. Those are edifying things, but the position that you have them and the priority is why you are laying your head at the end of the night, or I'm sorry, at the end of the day into the night, being like, I still don't get this Jesus thing. I'm gonna wake up tomorrow and be an actor once again, fully walking the walk and talking the talk of this Christian life, but still missing it. It's not a hypocrite uh in the West saying one thing and doing another, it's a hypocrite of the Bible. You're fully walking the walk and you're talking the talk, but you're still missing it. And you have a God who starts at night with you as your value as a human. Unbelievable.
SPEAKER_00All right, let's get into Genesis chapter two. I think it's time to read some scriptures. Well, we're doing 18, verse 18 uh verse to 22 in Genesis 2. Um, and this is out of the ESV. Then the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper fit for him. Now, out of the ground, the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called, every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept, took one of his ribs and closed up its f place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he had made into a into a woman and brought her to the man. That's verse twenty-two.
SPEAKER_01Perfect.
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SPEAKER_02Let's keep going. Keep going, keep going, keep going.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna finish it. Then the man said, This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
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SPEAKER_00It's an interesting line, too.
SPEAKER_02It is an interesting line. So we have end of creation story. Uh now we have Genesis chapter two here. Yeah. Uh now there's a tree. Um uh-oh. Well, what why is there a tree? Right? To kind of quickly westernly answer that, just give quick answers of stuff. The tree is there in all of our gardens every single day. You wake up with the tree there. We all have a garden, right, with God that we're all walking in, especially the ones, uh, especially if you are saved, you're back in the garden and you're walking with God, and there's a tree there. Why is there a tree there? To do what? To remind you of Genesis chapter one, that there's this partnership. What was Genesis chapter one? That God made a partnership with you and he invited you in on creation to call it good and to enjoy it with him and to know when on all of it and to know when to stop creating. And that was the whole seventh day that he takes the rest. So the tree is there so that you know that he's not withholding out on you in this whole thing. And that's gonna come up and shown again in into next week, uh, or next week, next time we do an episode uh with Genesis chapter three. And so, out of this, and if you know that we said the phrase thinking Bible, well, there's so many problems here, and and that's what you need to start thinking about. The writers of the scriptures, whatever they're physically writing on the paper, uh uh while you're reading it is not the point. It's not the point. So, other problems that we have here are why why describe all the rivers like this? Why describe the first one and in in great details and not the last one? Okay, there's probably something there. And then and then all of a sudden you have Adam's lonely, and God's like, You're lonely, you shouldn't be lonely. Yeah, but what does he do? And this is a big part into humanity today, right?
SPEAKER_00Because then immediately you expect you expect what? Oh, a helper immediately. Yeah, when because God said because God pointed it out, but instead, he says, Go name the he said he says, Go name the animals.
SPEAKER_02And what a strange thing to do, because today, when a lot of people are lonely, and the way that we talk about loneliness is we try to solve it immediately with other human companionships, and it gets so drastic in a way to where people will will do almost whatever they can and compromise themselves to not be lonely. Yeah. But does God bring a human to Adam?
SPEAKER_00Not eventually, not first. Not first.
SPEAKER_02Does he put him into a small group? No, unless you call animal smaller groups, right? Right, right. Does he does he put them onto a sports? Does he put him into a school? Does he give him a girlfriend or a boyfriend? Does he give him a spouse? Does he give him uh the the job with full of work people? Uh uh he gives them a job, but he does not place them around other humans. Why? This is a huge deal to know, but we skip over these parts because it's just the beginning of the Bible, right? Let's get to the media. Or most people are gonna be like, well, God didn't create more people yet, exactly. You know, right? It's like okay, but he but he did. Ah the male and females, right? That's a whole nother type of series of a podcast. But why does he have Adam name animals and not bring other humans into the picture yet? Because here's the deal, everybody. We're all gonna be lonely again, and God's like, you need to know how to be this when you are gonna be lonely again. How many of us are not okay being alone is extremely unfortunate. Are we designed to be alone? No, but are we also sure do we are we also supposed to know how to? Be alone? Absolutely. And the way that we are today in 2026, the way that we are running to apps, trading in our our humanness, trading in our beliefs and values just to gain other companionships. I mean, it's unbelievable. Like I can I can go download 15 different apps and meet a million other different people that I I don't even have to ask questions about. And I can have them right away. And I will never have to wrestle through why am I alone? Am I supposed to be in this? Why is God allowing loneliness in my life?
SPEAKER_00Right? Because immediately all we think is low as being alone is bad. We think it's a bad wrong with me.
SPEAKER_02And we never give God the chance, and we never give ourselves a chance to see who we are. And what is what does God make sure of? He shows he has Adam do what? Name animals. Name humans? No, name animals. Why? Because you also need to know how to be a master and a human. You need to know who you are, your dominion in your loneliness, and when you feel like you're not getting everything your way in this life, when you're not gonna get stuff your way, when the storms and the giants are going to crash down that front door of yours. Are you gonna know how to handle them? Are you gonna know how to be a domain? Are you gonna know how to have a domain over them?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Because next week, here comes this crafty walking, talking, reasoning, eating, sleeping beast. Not a human, a beast, but it's doing very human-like things. And it's gonna, and this is where you must know how to name the animals. Because here comes the the words for nakedness, which is a roam, and the name in the word for craftiness, which is Satan's word, a room, a roam in a room, half a syllable off between knowing, uh between nakedness and craftiness, almost the same word, almost like that's on purpose. Moses is doing because it's that thin of a line for you to be able to lose your humanness and go right into being a beast. Because what does a beast not know how to do? Know when. What if the scan's not clear? Am I still going to be able to show up as a human in my holy calling to be set apart, to be different, the way that Jesus was able to, when he had everything against him as fully man, the way that all of us are gonna have everything against us? Am I still going to be able to think Bible, be Bible, feel Bible, and be a human enough to know when to what? Stop and go. Not just stop, but also go. And so this is a big deal on what when a lot of people when when everything comes falling down and crashing down, they don't know what to do here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And knowing when was used to be so hard for me because but I I was still waiting on somebody to tell me, tell me what to do. I was still waiting on to what, but what knowing the what? And it got me into got me into such bad places.
SPEAKER_02Because we have an unhealthy relationship with the unknown. Exactly. And and if we don't have the seven ways on how to do, well, well, how do I do the next thing? Then then you I must be doing something wrong. Then all of a sudden you're gonna start showing up to church just looking for a wife. Yeah, you're gonna start showing up to biblical holy things for the wrong reasons, for for just a husband or a spouse kind of a thing, or just more friends, or you're gonna be in these community life groups for all the wrong reasons. And God is like, I thought you were gonna be in these things for me. I thought you wanted to be a part of these holy, God-given things that I've created because of me. But you're showing that you just want to be a part of this stuff because you are have an unhealthy relationship with being alone. You're so addicted to not being alone that you don't care and have an eagerness for your heavenly father. You just want to know where the next hangout is gonna be. You just want to know do I have any attention from the outside world? And you're you're disguising it in my son's crucifixion and resurrection, you're disguising it in in freedom, but you're not free at all. You're actually preaching a false gospel out of Egypt. You're geographically out of Egypt, but but you're you're not your heart is still so stuck in Egypt, it's not even funny.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Exactly. So what's the so uh how do we bring this garden tent mastery into everyday life? There's my Western question for you for the day.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, there's always gonna be the Western question of the day. Uh I I'm I mean, a lot of this is a lot of this is root, root stuff. A lot of this is having to understand why why is this in us? What makes us uh not want what makes us not deal with companion or I'm sorry, go after companionship kind of out of order? One, you need to be okay to be alone. Because God's there. And what because what if you never see anybody else again? What if you never get the friends again? What if you don't get the spouse? What if you don't get the family? Why were you wanting to be a part of this story in the first place with God? Is it just so you can have all of those things? Because one of the biggest problems is the the our also one of our with with the whole relationship with the unknown is it brings up tension, right? And and so because who does who does God bring on eventually? The Eve. He brings on Eve, Isha. Her original name was Esha. Her name used to be Esha, meaning uh uh who she is as her being, her essence. And it wasn't until after the fracture that Adam changed her name. God didn't tell him to change her name, he changed her name into what she can do. For she will be the mother of all through her actions. Yeah. In her name, in her presence used to be uh uh woman used to mean uh she who opposes man for his good. And the messianic rabbis teach that there's two planks and that tension, this is where tension is introduced in chapter two. That tension has to be a part of your everyday story. If you don't have tension, if you don't have wrestling, if you don't have adventure, get ready to be bored and not be able to be used by God in this life. That's a problem. Well, well, well, I I I tell I I'm positive every day. I I'm I'm I'm telling God, I'm telling everyone that God is love every day. No, you're just a puking unicorn. And and God doesn't need any more good people. He doesn't need any more people who are trying to avoid tension and conflict and discomfort. He actually is looking for the people who are gonna look to turn up things, turn over things, uh turn things upside down a bit. Yeah to bring tension back. Everything's held up by tension, your whole body's held up by tension. Why not bring some adventure of that back? You want to be able to be good with loneliness, right? Uh uh go look for go look to see where you can have the greatest responsibility, have some of the greatest responsibility held in your life. That will bring you some absolute adventure and some loneliness because no, no, no one is looking to do that in our country. Our country, our society teaches you work hard in order to go collect seashells. I'm we're never gonna retire. Retirement is of the enemy. You're gonna have to bury me, telling, you know, bleed me dry of of this adventure of all this. I want to be wrestling uh till till I can't walk anymore. Because now you just have old generations who who have traded it in and they're collecting seashells, and they they're so bored. They're so bored they don't know how to name the animals anymore. They don't care why there's a tree in their garden because they don't have an adventure for their life. And instead, we just blame God, God for our loneliness, for our for our we misconstrued loneliness, we misconstrued loneliness being in our life that God allows it to be there as, oh, that's a bad thing that I need to get out of my life. Well, what if the loneliness is there for a reason to get you closer to God? What if it's there not for you to try to amplify more friends around you and make your circle larger, but to get you deeper with God?
SPEAKER_00It'd be a wild be a wild thing if everybody got to that place where loneliness just didn't matter. Or it was exciting to be lonely in a way.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it would be exciting.
SPEAKER_00It's that adventure that you were talking about.
SPEAKER_02Because that's why people do bad things. We talk about this the because we're so bored, the mundane, this is what we've done, this is what we've come up with. And when I'm saying this, I'm talking about the entire world, all eight, nine billion of us. This is what we've come up with, the nine to five work empire. Yeah, this is it. Yeah, this is why Jesus hasn't come back yet. There's nothing impressive to come back on. We're we're we're we're we're we're still so addictive to attention, getting it through the Sunday Christian way, the nominal Christian way, of just trying to, you know, get as many people into something as possible. Well, every person's, you know, a large numbers, and when it's not about the numbers, well, Tyler, every per every number's a story. I I don't care. The more it's increasing division and the the lack of unity in the the more promotion of individualism is turning us backwards. It's stalling us out, it's making us stay on the the the the um hamster wheel of this empire and not know what to do, not know how to be a master. What could you do for free? Would you do your job, your career right now for free? If money didn't exist, would you still do it? These are garden intent type questions. Do you know how to name the animals with the current job that you're still doing? Or has has it identified you so much that that you don't that the empire knows how to stir perfection in it for you with the entrepreneur stuff? Because that's such attractive crap to talk about. We don't even know how to talk about kingdom inventions for for for God. Don't we we only know how to talk about in this lovey, goopy, like I said, puking unicorn type of way that isn't even tangible to hold on to. And so, how do you do this stuff? It it does require some type of uh letting go of dying to yourself and needing attention and being for the bigness of God, the chaos of God, and in order in the other sense of it. Living out of your value as human, unconditional acceptance of Genesis 1, knowing how to be a human of Genesis 2, naming the animals, and and living in your nakedness, and knowing that it's half a syllable off on becoming the beast. And what does that mean? That means you don't know when. You don't know when, and that's a bigger topic for next week. And this week is is really just how not okay with loneliness that we are. We look at loneliness as a disease of wrong and bad. And so we start going on TV shows or watching TV shows and and just trading it in, trading it in for hope of some sort of answer that we can see. And it's just exposement on we have a horrific relationship with the unknown. You either become friends with the unknown, or the unknown is gonna forcibly humble you in ways that you don't want to be humbled. How do I become friends with the unknown? Stop looking for answers. Whatever circumstance you're in right now, stop judging it. Stop judging it in a way where you're gonna, it's making you anxious, it's making you depressed, and you're for and you're white knuckling, enforcing an issue. That that it's you'll get an answer because what you look for, you will find. What you look for, you will find. So if you continue to white knuckle things and not live open-handedly in this life, with chaos in one hand and order in the other, right? Meaning freedom for God to do whatever He needs to be doing in one hand and obedience in the other, right? Staying in the garden, not taking from the tree, but looking at the tree and saying, I know that God is not withholding out on me. And so in this partnership, I can trust the relationship. Can trust the relationship. And out of that trusting the relationship, you remain a human. And the longer you remain a human, you are holy. And the more you are holy, the more you are different. And the more you are different in 2026 and in this world, the easier you stand out, man. The easier you stand out. You look like a big old tree that people can come take a nap on. And that is unbelievable. That is something that God can use. God sees you as the coach on the sidelines, and he sees you as the player, and he's like, that that one knows the plays. Get in the game. I need you playing both sides of the ball. I need you on both sides of the ball. Okay, you need to come out for a quick water break. I need you to go right back in there because majority of the other people in Christianity today want to stay on the sidelines. And they are the passive, nominal, I'm just here for the good time Christian. The force frank Christian. Ooh. I just I don't got time for it. And this is why thankfully I'm not God. It is what it is on a lot of it. And a lot of what we're talking about can't, nothing can be done until brokenness happens. And it doesn't even have to happen like that.
SPEAKER_01That's what's so sad. That's what's so sad. It's a good way to be a master.
SPEAKER_02We have such an opportunity to be a master over our desires. But the addiction to wanting our desires to be a master over us is so huge right now.
SPEAKER_00And the permission that we're looking for.
SPEAKER_02The permission that we give it and that we look for it.
SPEAKER_01It's like we don't want to kill it. It's like we don't want to be different. Like our God is different.
SPEAKER_00Man, Genesis 2, it's a crazy chapter. I wish that I'd known this stuff for since I was five.
SPEAKER_02And why the rivers? We'll get to that someday. The rivers are Noah's sons. Ooh, go look that up. I'm not gonna talk about it at all right now. Just go look it up. Do you mind if I pray actually for us? Sure. I know I I monologued. I monologue a lot. Yeah, that's what it's for. Actually, do I want to pray? Yeah, pray. Okay. I appreciate my spirit kind of needs it. Um, Father, I really thank you. I really thank you for who you are. I thank you for the this this time that we get to have in Will's place, that we just get to have two microphones and get to um be very passionate about you. We want to see you. We're trying to keep our hearts so pure so that we're able to see you, be blessed by you. Uh, I really cannot thank you enough for Will Pope. And I want everyone who's gonna listen to that, hear this right now. How unbelievably blessed I am to get to have Will Pope as my best brother in my life. Uh, what an honor he is, what a master he is, what a fighter he is. Um, and for him to fight to for us to be doing this, if it this wouldn't be happening if it wasn't for Will Pope. So, Father, I thank you for him. Bless his adventures, bless our adventures. Um, thank you for this. Father, we love you in Jesus' name. Amen.
SPEAKER_00Amen.
SPEAKER_02Thanks, dude.